Lodra

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[–] Lodra 4 points 9 months ago

The Locked Tomb series! It’s excellent. The first book is Gideon the Ninth.

It’s not exactly the right genre but I think it’s pretty close. Many people describe it as lesbian necromancers in space. But that’s a poor description IMO. More like mystery novels with a side of horror featuring necromancers in space. The lesbian aspect is very minor though certainly relevant to the plot.

[–] Lodra 4 points 9 months ago (3 children)

This is excellent. I may copy the rough format for tracking things internally at my company!

Btw, I agree with most of your decisions in here with just a few exceptions.

  • kustomize > helm
  • Argo > flux

My last thought is less clear though. There are good observability solutions besides datadog. Grafana Cloud is great. Honeycomb has a similar offering. But all are pretty expensive though.

If you aren’t using OpenTelemetry, you’re probably doing observability wrong!

[–] Lodra 13 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Disclaimer: I don’t yet understand why this is valuable.

I looked through the yaml example a bit. It looks pretty rough. This really makes familiar and readable yaml into much longer configuration. It’s much harder to read. First impression is a pass.

[–] Lodra 3 points 10 months ago

Well I’m not doing much python development anymore. But I was a big fan of the black formatter!

[–] Lodra 1 points 10 months ago

Oh really??? I wonder if there’s hope for chrome after all. Though I’m still sticking with Firefox 🙂

[–] Lodra 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Nope!

I’m 100% against microwaving water to heat it up. And it’s completely unreasonable! But I really won’t do it at all and scoff at those that do 😁

I’m also perfectly happy to use a microwave for any other purpose. As far as I understand, it’s actually one of the healthier methods to cook food.

[–] Lodra 11 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Here’s a random article on the topic to get you started.

Basically Google is destroying anonymous web browsing by embedding finger printing in chromium. Certain trusted servers will track your identity and report whether or not it trusts you.

It’s actually very similar to how Single Sign On and identity providers work. Except you aren’t choosing to use it with a “login with Facebook” or similar button. It’s forced on you by the browser

[–] Lodra 50 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (33 children)

With chromium being poisoned last year and Mozilla trying to diversify away from Firefox, I’m starting to wonder what browser I should be using in the near future. So I’d really like to hear some opinions on arc browser!

EDIT: Aaand it’s chromium

[–] Lodra 5 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Fair enough regarding sass, though I disagree with the opinion.

But I’m asking about builders of partial software. For example, consider a single developer that builds a really great library for handling tables. It displays a grid, displays text in cells, maybe performs some operations between cells, etc. On its own, this software is useless but is very useful for other people to build other products. Should it be illegal to sell this software?

[–] Lodra 6 points 10 months ago (1 children)

No. There are good landlords. They’re definitely small scale. Normal homeowners that are able to scale their efforts to a few rental units. There’s also a real need for renting rather than owning.

The real problems are all large scale landlords and also bad landlords (of all sizes) that overcharge, abuse tenants, forgo maintenance, etc.

[–] Lodra 12 points 10 months ago (5 children)

Hmm I may be confused. Do you believe that software companies shouldn’t be allowed to build and sell libraries? I.e. They should only be allowed to sell full products, ready for an end user?

[–] Lodra 1 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

The subscription model makes plenty of sense. But there are loads of games that rely on server side components. That includes basically every multiplayer game that isn’t peer-to-peer. Any very many of them aren’t on a subscription.

I would love to require all that to be open source. But I still don’t see how to do it practically.

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